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There are around a hundred miles of hiking trails within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. I've hiked many of them, and, lately, have set out to hike them all.
There is a collection of trails at the southernmost part of the park called the 'Platte Plains Trail' that I recently began to explore. I've hiked the lakeshore here many times using the Esch Road access, but this time I hiked the 4.6 mile loop around Otter Creek.
This is a fairly flat hike and part of it is on a dirt road. The wild flowers were in bloom:
Trillium
Marsh Marigold
The park had just completed a prescribed burn along part of the trail. In all, the parks service plans to burn over 2,000 acres in this area.
These burns (according to press release), "burn off available fuel to boost fire-dependent ecosystems and head off wildfires."
It will be fascinating to watch this area regenerate over the next year or so.
There was wildlife to watch, and I spent some time on the foggy beach, too.
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